I wonder if a progress bar could effectively replicate the experience of progress that the researchers are talking about.
On my Kindle (5-button) there is a little progress bar at the bottom that tracks your position both in the book and within the chapter you are currently reading. I look at it frequently.
I mean... do people have this problem with movies? And there is no stack of paper being shifted from one hand to the next when you watch a movie. Sure, there is the passage of time, but you have the exact same thing happening when you are reading an e-book.
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Originally Posted by jgaiser
Yep. Confirmation Bias. I spend some time on reddit on the books subreddit and the paper zealots are enjoying this study and others like it.
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Well, to be fair, if this study came out saying that e-readers performed dramatically better than paper readers... I find it hard to believe that a few of us here wouldn't feel a bit fuzzy inside. The vitriol and the gloating is the problem.